Long time pot smokers - do you think you are suffering any ill effects

old mark

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Wed Apr-07-10 01:26 AM
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Long time pot smokers - do you think you are suffering any ill effects

from smoking pot?

Just curious.

Thanks.

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RandomThoughts

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Wed Apr-07-10 01:30 AM
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1. What was the question again?

Edited on Wed Apr-07-10 01:31 AM by RandomThoughts

umm 42 ??????

:rofl:

Just a joke, I don't smoke pot.

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abq e streeter

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Wed Apr-07-10 01:36 AM
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2. I quit several years ago, but still worry about carcinogens and just all the smoke in my throat and

Edited on Wed Apr-07-10 01:37 AM by abq e streeter

lungs for too many years.( I did a LOT for much too long) I'll always wonder if it made my ADD worse too, but I'll probably never really know the answers to these questions. I've read that it can do cardiac damage,and fuck with your blood sugar ( hence the munchies) and I've had some issues there too. Anything specific happening that is of concern or just , as you said, curious?

On edit, there was one hell of a freudian slip; just noticed I'd written "quit several TEARS ago"

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slay

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Wed Apr-07-10 01:44 AM
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3. No.. and yes

having smoked over 15 years - just weed - i do cough up black oysters quite a bit. then again much younger peeps than i do as well. bottom line - i love pot and for ME the benefits outweigh the negatives HOWEVER the preferred method of using marijuana would be cooked into butter and then into something like brownies or cookies. smoke is not good - i can tell my lungs are worse than they used to be. i intend to quit this year (smoking it that is) and go to cooking with it. :smoke: :hippie:

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Skittles

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Wed Apr-07-10 02:08 AM
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4. I had a response for this

but now I cannot remember what it was

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rcrush

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Wed Apr-07-10 03:33 AM
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5. I bought a vaporizer a few years ago.

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MiddleFingerMom

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Wed Apr-07-10 04:46 AM
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6. In a...

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...Vicks Vap-o-rub-a-dub style.
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Decades ago, smoked some hash oil. Shit. Didn't get me
high. My response was that I hadn't smoked enough, so
I smoked much more of it. Never did get high, and I had
the distinct impression that whatever I had put into my
lungs had done some immediate damage.
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Fuckin' LEGALIZE it -- get the crap off the streets and
out of people's lungs.
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old mark

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Wed Apr-07-10 07:03 AM
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7. I smoked for some years, but stopped nearly 30 years ago.

I had feelings of paranoia and nervousness which seemed to gradually improve after I stopped. I certainly think it is wrong to make pot illegal and it should be legalized completely to allow our overworked legal system time to find some REAL criminals.

But I would not start smoking it again for any reason that I can forsee - I quit smoking tobacco over 20 years ago, one of the hardest things I ever did, and I don't want to take smoke into me again.

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rug

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Wed Apr-07-10 07:48 AM
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8. I just have trouble remembering what a yellow light means.

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unpossibles

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Wed Apr-07-10 08:36 AM
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9. I've thought about this a lot and come to the conclusion that

... Wait, I forgot what I was going to say.

Oh yeah. Honestly, I think that more than a few of the side-effects were already in my basic person to begin with. I was forgetful, a slacker, and goofy and laughed a lot way before I ever smoked*

* and to agent Mike, I've never inhaled, so of course it hasn't affected me!

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graywarrior

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Wed Apr-07-10 08:41 AM
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10. Wait. . .

what?

Duuuuuuuude.

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Mopar151

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Wed Apr-07-10 09:07 AM
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11. Well, for starters

Weed has fewer side effects, and is often more effective, tha the medication docs prescribe for the same thing. I've suffered several ill effects from it's illegality, though. And I was likely self-medicating some stuff I should have understood better. These days, I'm prescribed stuff I was scared as hell of, as street drugs - and God forbid I take a drink at the same time! Too broke to smoke...

There's a couple of the "nobody talks about" things - the toxic multiplier effects of alcahol with a lot of prescriptions, and the metabolic train wrecks that alcahol can cause - especially for diabetics or pre-diabetics.

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old mark

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Wed Apr-07-10 11:36 AM
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12. Right - My paranoia could have come from the fact that it is illegal....

and I am diabetic, so no more smoke for me.

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bif

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Wed Apr-07-10 11:43 AM
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13. My brother got lunch cancer from it

A doctor friend of mine said 1 joint is the equivalent to a pack of smokes.

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woofless

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Wed Apr-07-10 04:46 PM
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15. Your doctor friend is lying to you.

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woofless

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Wed Apr-07-10 04:43 PM
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14. Nope.

Forty years now, and the only thing that bothers me is the fact that I am at risk from the law.

Woof

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